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Paradigm smirks, the reign of Overmind ended. He looks around and his mind is already calculating how to study the technology in the room. He starts cataloging everything, letting his nano bots infect every part he can. Earth was theirs again, or at least it would be once the rest of the V’Sori were driven off. Now, the Outsider was offering to have him fight on other worlds. Paradigm shook his head. ”I did not fight for my world just to leave it. I have things I still need to accomplish there and with very few who can or want to stop me, I will finally be able to finish my research. Overmind’s tech is going to help me. I will return to Earth, but I am no hero. I did the necessary evil.”
Shaking himself out of his calculations of error, Paradigm refreshes his shield and takes off into the air, ready to rain fire down on the whole area. Keeping himself in check though, he focuses his ire on Overmind, hoping to end his reign once and for all.
Paradigm staggers back as the fists from the robot pass through his shields. ”That will just not do.” he says as he nearly falls backwards, into a control panel. You can see his shield starting to flicker while he attempts to retreat to a safer distance.
I’m going to be gone the next few days and I don’t usually post on weekends. I should be back by Monday though!
Seeing that Enkidu and Flare can do more damage together than he can alone, Paradigm temporarily increases their collective power.
Suddenly, where once a single giant Enkidu stood, now there are two. Where Flare was alone, now she has a twin.
I like Enkidu’s idea because it gives the boss phases, like we killed the wall, Phase 1. Enkidu destroyed his suit, Phase II, etc. That way it feels like we are making progress, but then we didn’t take him out in one shot.
Paradigm glowers at Overmind. Rather than say anything, he simply acts, focusing on the electricity running through the suit. He redirects it, shorting it into the floors around Overmind.
”That’s enough of that.”, Paradigm says as he thinks, I would have done the same. His own force field shimmered as he began to say a few words of destruction.
Paradigm did his best to stifle a laugh. Here, the most powerful of all V’Sori, was hiding behind this obvious falsehood of a giant brain. And of course he would give the threat of some contingency plan. Even Paradigm could come up with better ones, and he has, when he was a villain. Wait. I am saving the world from some alien mastermind. They will tout us as heroes… He wanted to continue to ponder that thought, but he had a bug to squash first.
Paradigm ponders the creature’s words for a moment. ”Perhaps. My curiosity begs the question though. If you know all this, then why have you not done anything about it yourself? A being with your power could have easily stopped Overmind and the entire invasion. Is there some sort of geas preventing you from interfering with mortal affairs?” Paradigm’s arrogance was rising. ”Nevermind. I am sure you will spout something about things my mortal mind cannot comprehend and we will then get into an existential argument and frankly, I don’t have time for it. We have a bad guy to kill. Let’s be off.”
Paradigm pauses for a moment, his arrogance and intellect having an internal dialogue. After a few seconds he speaks. ”As much as I would like to see the Overmind erased from existence and his Empire to shatter, when the dust settles, there will be yet another to take his place and we will be back where we started, though this time with targets painted on our backs. If we choose to have a restrictive block put on him and his people, they will have no choice but to leave our home alone. Will they strike at someone else? Probably, but it is none of our concern.” He pauses looking at each of these villains that have come to work together as a team rather than on their own. ”Still, it seems that most of you are willing to simply end him once and for all, in which case I would put forth this: should they come again, with a new Overmind, we will band together once more to fight. Agreed?”
A smug and satisfied look crosses Paradigm’s face as the end of the battle nears.
Determined to end this fight quickly, Paradigm keeps blasting at everything not in his cohort. He knows his frustration is starting to rise and does his best to calm himself before destroying everything.
Ignoring Enkidu’s wound, knowing full well he can’t do anything about it anyway, Paradigm is laser-focused on killing the rest of these goons. His enhanced plasma blast tells them so.
Trying again, Paradigm focuses his blast further, hoping to end another soldier.
Returning to his usual tactics, Paradigm opens fire on another of the mooks, trying to start picking them off one by one.
Changing tactics, a large ball of dark matter forms around Paradigm's hand. He points his finger and it goes shooting towards one of the wounded enemy troops.
Seeing that his power is working, and maybe a little that Enkidu is mostly unscathed, he keeps up the pressure. Unfortunately, he could only keep the portal to the Flames of Phlegethos for so long before it collapsed. He would have to come up with a new strategy, and soon.
”I hope you can handle the heat!”, Paradigm yells down to Enkidu as he continues to burn the enemy troops.
Paradigm decides to open the portal to the Plane of Fire a little wider and engulf as many of the bad guys as possible.
Seeing that the quake was only mildly effective, Paradigm gets ready to end the fight more dramatically. He starts the mental calculations and says the incantations to open a portal to the elemental plane of fire.
”Let’s see how many are still standing when I take the rug out from underneath them, then you can have at the rest. We’ll provide fire support from up here.”
Paradigm starts focusing and you can see streams of blue power starting to flow around him.
”I might be able to cook something up along those lines. As long as they don’t fly like us, it shouldn’t be too difficult. I will have to drop the shields on you two to make something big enough that they can’t just go around.” He listens to Enkidu’s description of the oncoming soldiers, trying to get an idea of what they are up against.
Paradigm, for once in his life, is stunned. Champion, scourge of ”Alright, as much as I would like to celebrate a long awaited victory, this isn’t over yet. Apparently our new ‘friend’ has some more challenges for us to face first.” With that, he checks to make sure his force field is active and then does something he usually doesn’t do, he boosts his comrades defenses as well.
Seeing that his power was able to get through, Paradigm focuses the beam more intensely.
Deciding the illusion is no longer affecting Champion, Paradigm lets it go, both boosting their own chances of hitting, but also Champion’s. Focusing one last time while he ruminated on a new tactic, he fired a blast at Champion.
Paardigm, noticing that Champion is still working through his illusion keeps it going a bit longer. In the meantime, he attempts to breakdown Champion’s defenses by shooting through them.
Paradigm looked for a brief moment as if something had hit him in the face. The pinpoint shot did nothing to Champion’s Armor.
Seeing that Champion still can’t seem to be slowed down, Paradigm changes tactics. This time, he tries to nullify some of his power, but not before moving out of his way. He carefully constructs an image in his mind and creates a simulacrum of it in front of Champion.
Okay, so I edited my character sheet so that I now have SuperSorcery at Level 6 and my Invisibility is now just a spell. I will Reroll the TK strength to keep trying to push Champion back in game.
Re: Super Attribute. I boosted my Super Sorcery Skill, which uses the Super Skill power at 1SPP per increase. I increased it 2 dice, so it should only cost 2SPP, leaving me with 2 remaining. My protection of others was way over my total limit, you are right and that is on me, as I didn’t take into account the costs for multiple people. Even with the Deflection power, it would still cost too much. Overcharging wouldn’t cover it either, but I also read in this version, there is no overcharge. Entangling champion was a use of my Telekinesis power, which is as you call it, “static”, not technically SuperSorcery. I have to roll its Strength (d12) v. his Spirit. I can Reroll that if you want. Or, if you want to call it grappling, I will have to roll Fighting. I do agree though that I should boost SuperSorcery to Level 6 and remove invisibility. I don’t use it often enough to warrant a full power with it. If you’re still willing, I’ll change that right away.
I’ve spent all my points, but for some reason I had it marked that our max was 9 SPP per power instead of 12. I have two lists in my sheet, my powers list and in spoilers, my commonly used SuperSorcery powers. I put a note in ther to remind myself of the book we use, so as to not mess them up next time. Either way, it sounds like Paradigm is out of the fight, as I assume that powers means all powers and not just SuperSorcery.,
I will double check the math, as I keep going back and forth between the three versions of Necessary Evil when I work the stats up. I have stayed away from the new SWADE SPC, but I’ll look into it as soon as I get a chance.
Did not work the way I planned, but at least we have his attention. A wall suddenly forms in front of Champion, made of the hardest metal Paradigm could think of, while still holding him bound by gravity.
Paradigm looks over Champion and decides that in order for his plan to succeed, it needs to interfere with the plans of the V’Sori. Working with Destruction has been successful, but not as much as Paradigm would like. Still, nothing would get done while Champion was protecting the V’Sori. That and he would be a thorn in his side for some time to come, even if he did succeed in taking over Destruction’s operations. Time for Champion to die, once and for all. ”Simple, we keep blasting until there is nothing left for the V’Sori to reanimate.”
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